Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer in Middlesbrough

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we? We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle. If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

The Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer plays a key role within Causeway’s IT team, supporting, developing, and implementing secure, scalable, and reliable cloud and infrastructure solutions that enable the business to meet its current and future objectives. The role is responsible for managing and resolving IT cases, maintaining the health and security of the technology estate, and delivering infrastructure improvements that enhance operational effectiveness.

The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, including vulnerability management, patch management, project delivery, and the ongoing execution and improvement of operational processes and procedures. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, the role applies technical expertise to ensure the stability, performance, and continual evolution of Causeway’s cloud and infrastructure services, driving operational excellence and supporting business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMware and container orchestration services such as Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to streamline provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure performance, security, with an awareness of costs, utilising monitoring, assessment tools and logging frameworks (e.g. Datadog, Azure Sentinel and Tenable).
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), privileged identity management, data encryption, network security, and compliance with industry regulations and best practices (e.g. GDPR, Cyber Security Assessment (CSA)).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to IT colleagues, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning and innovation.
• Review existing systems and processes and make recommendations for improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to document technical architectures, standards, and best practices for cloud computing, and ensure alignment with enterprise IT strategies and objectives.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, including IT management team and colleagues, providing updates on performance, upcoming changes, and other relevant information.
• When required be part of an on-call rota, responding to critical monitors and alerts out of core hours.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Essential Requirements

• Commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and mentoring other team members.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• 3+ years’ experience of working with at least one of AWS, Azure, GCP or a managed VMWare service.
• Strong Windows and Linux administration skills.
• Experience working with Firewalls and TCP/IP Networking.
• Demonstrable experience of managing monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Security management lifecycle, from identification, risk management and remediation.
• Use of common backup and disaster recovery software.

Desirable Skills

• AWS/Azure/GCP qualifications relevant to the role.
• Knowledge or experience of Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+).
• Experience of working in Agile teams being aware of Agile methodologies (using Scrum or Kanban).
• Endpoint Security including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Deploying and provisioning Infrastructure as Code with tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

• We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.
• We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.
• We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.
• We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.